Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brave soul and Minnesota is a safe distance from Rockefeller Plaza. Why not entitle your "Letters" column with a more lengthy, but obviously more appropriate, heading-"These are the souls who try TIME...
...their cause -a representative they make into a great man. And he is the root from which tyranny always comes. . . . How does he turn into a tyrant? . . . The tyrant's great and famous step [is] the request for a bodyguard to keep the representative of the people safe for them...
...especially that to U.S. bureau-men working in foreign countries like Mexico, where it can take three weeks of notarizing & counter-notarizing, witnessing & counter-witnessing just to rent a safe deposit box-but not with Rafael Delgado Lozano around. Rafael, known colloquially as Ralph, on 24 hours notice once arranged to have three divisions of the Mexican Army turned out to parade before the cameras of a MARCH OF TIME unit. That was a major miracle. He performs minor ones almost daily, disappearing into the jungles of official red tape to emerge with just the document a harried correspondent needs...
McCloy accepted with the understanding that, no matter how the Bank was set up on paper, he would be boss in fact as well as in title. To play safe, he demanded -and got-the resignation of "Pete" Collado. (Washington gossiped that Collado would soon go to China to lend a hand in stabilizing the currency...
...adamant about airing. There was no better way to catch pneumonia, she said, than to wear a flannel garment that had not been properly warmed and aired. "And when it comes to things like chemises and drawers, which go next to the skin, it's always on the safe side to let them go on airing for the better part of a week." She was adamant on many points: furs mothproofed with pepper, the futility of female education, the social inadequacy of Unitarians. Robert Leighton, her husband, was unfortunately not only a Unitarian but a less successful writer than...